Pie-plate attachment.



PATENTED JULY 4, 1905.

T. J. GORMAN.

v PIE PLATE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26. 1904.

amvemtoz maa J erm/an UNITED STATES Patented July 4, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. GORMAN, OF GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRYISAACS, OF GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

- PIE-PLATE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 793,653, dated July 4,1905.

Application filed July 26, 1904:. Serial No. 218,274.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. GroRuAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pie-PlateAttachments. of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to guards for the rims of pie-plates; and ithas for its object the provision of improvements whereby the edge of thecrust may be supported when the guard or rim is removed. also inimprovements in means for connecting the guard-rim with the edge of theplate, and also improvements in means for latching and unlatching theends of the guard-rim.

The aforesaid improvements will be set out clearly in the followingdescription in view of the annexed drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same lettersdesignating the same parts or features, as the case may be, whereverthey occur.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the invention complete, showingit as attached to a pie-plate. Fig. 2 isasectional view through one edgein the plane a; m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of a small portion,showing the edges of the guard-rim latched together.

In the drawings, A designates the plate, and B the guard-rim. The platemay be of any suitable size and depth, and the rim a thereof may be ofany shape that will allow of the guard B to be attached thereto. In thepresent instance the rim (0 of the plate is shown as plain and ofsubstantially horizontal form. The guard B is made from a strip of metalof vertical form and corrugated, as shown. The bottom of the guard isprovided with a fairly deep groove t, fitting the edge of the plate andallowing the corrugated part of the guard to extend over on the edge ofthe plate. The guard is made in two parts, two of the divided ends beinghinged together, as at c, and the other two ends being provided with alatch (Z, consisting of a strip of metal suitably pivoted or otherwiseconnected with one of the outer bends of the corrugations near one ofthe divided ends, as at 6, so that when the ends are brought togetheraround the edge of the pie-plate a small hole f in the said latch may besprung over a pin g, extending out from one of the corrugations in theadjacent divided end of the guard.

The groove I) provides a substantial means for attaching the guard tothe plate and serves to bring the corrugations of the guard well in fromthe edge, so that the edge of the piecrust when the guard is removedwill be, as it were, provided with numerous supportingpillars built uponthe edge of the plate, so that the crust will not break down. The crustbeneath the pillars will be that part that lies on the edge of the plateand the pillars will be supported thereby, and the crust for this reasonwill not break down even when the pie is carelessly cut. This is not thecase where the guard is made straight without pillars or where thepillars would have no crust beneath to support them.

It is to be noted that in my pie-plate attachment the base is horizontalto insure the formation of a substantially horizontal crust as a supportbeneath the pillars and in order that the full benefit of forming thevertical pillars, as hereinbefore stated, may be accomplished.

I claim The combination, with a pie-plate having a flat edge or rim of avertically-corrugated rim or guard, provided with an annular groove onits lower edge, to fit on the edge of the pieplate in such manner thatthe corrugations shall extend over the plate, the flat rim forming thebottom of the corrugations, the guard being adapted to be latched inposition on the plate.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS J. GOBMAN.

Witnesses:

FRANK J LAwLnR, HENRY J. FIELD.

